Word: brescia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fine Tolerances. As soon as Daimler-Benz was making money again, it went out to recapture its old racing honors. In 1952, it sent the powerful, speedy 300 SL to Brescia for Italy's famed Mille Miglia (1,000-mile race). Along went a famed prewar Mercedes figure, vat-sized Alfred Neubauer, 62, pit boss in the 1930s. Neubauer, who wears two stop watches about his neck and likes to keep a cooling case of Munich beer close by, had lost none of his cunning. Under his split-second training, crews changed tires and refueled the Mercedes...
...test of cool driving skill and hot sports cars, Italy's Mille Miglia ranks with the world's toughest races. The 950-mile course-from Brescia to Rome and back -runs over the hairpin turns of four rugged mountain passes (one so grim that it inspired some of Dante's Inferno), through scores of towns and villages, and along straight ribbons of road where the racers hit it up as high as 150 m.p.h...
...news of the race, as it filtered back by radio to the Brescia crowd, was of records being smashed again & again at every checkpoint. Ferrari Driver Gianni Marzotto, the 1950 winner, reached Verona at an average clip of 106 m.p.h. Minutes later, Verona clocked Argentina's Juan Fangio, in an Alfa Romeo, at 106.6. Former World Champion Nino Farina, of Turin, also in a Ferrari, raised it to 109.7. The crowd gasped when it heard about Italy's Consalvo Sanesi and his Alfa Romeo. His speed: 112.8 m.p.h...
After the war, high-placed friends of the Communist assassins tried to quash the matter. But 52 suspects were brought to the bar, charged with treason and murder. One trial misfired in Brescia and another got under way in Lucca. For 193 days, 300 persons (accused and witnesses) testified. An imposing battery of defense lawyers-provided by the Communist Central Committee-did not deny the killings, but argued that the Osoppos were Fascists interfering with the liberation...
Divorced. Robert Penn Warren, 46, Rhodes scholar, poet turned professor, and Pulitzer Prize novelist (All the King's Men); and Emma Brescia Warren, fortyish; after almost 21 years of marriage; in Reno...